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Monday, October 1, 2012

While Obama publicly proclaimed his rejection of the Bush "torture" under the Patriot Act, he has quietly expanded the Bush policies of communications intercepts.But little notice has been given by the Obama cheering media to Obama's failure to close Gitmo or Obama's accelerating assault on the protections of the Bill of Rights. If Obama were a Republican president, I bet this issue would be getting the attention it deserves.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.THIS SAYS SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT ABOUTTHESE TIMES AND ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT!Scroll down.This one is seen on Interstate I-35Now this is a good one it will be seen by many.don't know where these are seen Highway billboard attacking 0bama inspires heated newspaper letters:a billboard in West Plains showing a caricatureof Democratic presidential candidateBarack 0bama wearing a turban and usinghis middle name - Hussein - in quoteshas sparked outrage and accusations of racismLook at the bottom of this next sign to see who paid for it. Love it!!

It would be nice to keep this going until November 2012...5 miles east of Clovis, New Mexicoon Highway 60-70-84.That's the Texaco highway for those of youwho don't know.

Please send this to all your friendsand ask them to do the same... We are reallygoing to have to work to limit him and his administration to one term.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

On July 11, 2012 or Wednesday's show Rachel Maddow did an amazing thing. In one segment she blamed the Washington Times for doing poor journalism and just printing talking points from the Romney campaign about Dick Cheney and Romney's relationship, then talked about (and admitted) that the Democrat talking points are about Romney's dad and releasing his tax returns. So she basically slammed the Times for sucking at journalism and then turned and did THE EXACT SAME THING on her show repeating the Democrat talking point.

Plus a really weird comment she made about Dick Cheney. She mentioned that Cheney had a heart transplant then said, "Isn't Obamacare great!?"

Now, I don't really know how to take that comment. She can't be that dumb and think that Dick Cheney's heart transplant was somehow paid for by Obamacare which hasn't even started yet. Maybe she's being sarcastic meaning that when ObamaCare is in effect, Dick Cheney shouldn't get his heart transplant, you know because he's a Republican.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Leave it to Eugene Robinson, the giggling guy on the Olberman show from a few years back (which I listened to and didn't know he was black for a long time but when I realized that, it didn't change my mind about how silly some of his ideas are) wrote a real eye-roller of a column over at his home at the Washington Post on the Supreme Court's ruling that Obamacare stands as the largest tax increase EVER.

Funny thing is that he never mentioned "tax."

Here are some of the more eye-rolling comments he said:

"Much more important is what the ruling means in the long term for the physical and moral health of the nation."

"the Affordable Care Act was intended as just a beginning. We have far to go, but at least we're on our way."

Oh yeah. This is great. Just like a Utopian statist. All of their big initiatives are beginnings. Never done. Never done tinkering. Never happy to leave people alone.

Now Mr. Robinson gives us the biggest eye-roller yet when he talks about the silly system we have now where your job gives you your health insurance:

"this is a haphazard and inefficient delivery route that puts U.S. businesses at a disadvantage against foreign competitors, most of which shoulder no such burden. Tying health insurance to the workplace also distorts the labor market and discourages entrepreneurship by forcing some employees to stay where they are — even in dead-end jobs..."

Oh this is rich. I agree that businesses providing health insurance is not good because it creates this silly 3rd party system where nobody really knows the cost of what you are getting. But here you have a liberal progressive democrat who is pretending to care about entrepreneurs and US business competitiveness. That is the funniest joke EVER! Mr. Robinson doesn't give a fig for business! And yet...this is where all the money comes from to buy the POST!

Finally:

"When that next big push takes place, it will be with the underlying assumption that health care should be available to all who need it regardless of their ability to pay — that it is not a privilege but a right."

Regardless of their ability to pay? And who will pay Mr. Robinson? One simple question. Who will pay?

Monday, June 25, 2012

Good old EJ Dionne has another doozy of a worthless article at the Washington post. He's pre-lamenting the death of Obamacare and throwing about silly statements. But the silliest of all that I read was the bit at the end about Joni Mitchell and "You don't know what you've got till it's gone."

Now that I come to think of it, the younger generation probably only knows the Counting Crows version of that "You paved paradise and put up a parking lot." But this quote can easily be used on the conservative side. If Obamacare is found to be kind of Constitutional (kind of because it isn't but it kind of is according to the Justices) then gosh won't most Americans feel soon what they've lost?

Honestly, Obamacare, I think, wouldn't affect too many people who already have health insurance. Of course if their company just dumps them on the national system then they will be affected. But remember, Obama said that HE wouldn't change your healthcare if you liked it. When the people come screaming that their healthcare was changed, he'll ask them a simple question,

"Who changed your health care?"

"My company!"

"Exactly."

"But because of your stupid law!"

"There's no evidence of that. But even if there was, what I told you was the truth. I never changed your healthcare. Your stingy rich boss did."

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Mr. Dionne again. He says that European problems are nothing like our problems. Greece is nothing like us. Then he goes ahead and compares US problems with European problems. Quite convincingly so.

He also says that the bank bailout, pouring money on banks who knowingly lent money to people with no money, was good and that the auto bailout, surpassing the actual people who invested in GM and giving all the money and ownership to the UAW, was a good thing!

Early in the recession, the feds were able to offset problems in the country's most troubled regions with a stimulus program (and also with that auto bailout that so many, including Mitt Romney, opposed). The stimulus should have been bigger, and it should have extended over a longer period. But it helped. Second, we bailed out our banks right away and also have a more effective central bank. We thus avoided some of the problems now facing Europe, notably in Spain.

So EJ Dionne is FOR Crony Capitalism. I see.

Later in the article he mentions that all we really need is growth and government can spend and spend and spend and that will help boost the economy. The Republicans should agree to:

"pump more money into state governments and into infrastructure spending to speed a decline in unemployment."

Really? I have one question for Mr. Dionne. Where will all that money come from? From collecting taxes? Why then are you so sure that the government officials and bureaucrats would spend that money more wisely than the people who earned it in the first place?

This kind of "educated think" is just so sad because it just defies logic.

I try to read and or listen to all sides. I want to be a good American and listen to both sides. But WTF?!? If the other side is as brainless and "holier than thou" as E.J. Dionne, then maybe I'll just go back to reading Breitbart and listening to Rush and save myself some time.

In Dionne's new piece at the Wash Po he laments about the possibility of wasting the next 5 months and 2 billion dollars on the election if we haven't come to a conclusion about what we're really talking about in terms of the issues. So he decides to spell out HIS issues and it's hilarious.

But instead of boring you with his article I'll just get to the money quote and we'll be done with it.

Conservatives might rebel against the way I frame our objectives. In talking about the budget, I do not even bring up reducing taxes. That is because I think the evidence shows that if we are serious about balancing the budget, government needs more revenue.

1. Not object, but rebel. I thought liberals were all about rebelling?

2. "evidence shows" yet no evidence mentioned.

3. Evidence shows what exactly? That people who make money, then forced to give it to government who then redistribute it to others, are most likely going to keep working hard for the ever decreasing amount that they "get to keep"? Look back on the theories of human motivation!

4. serious about balancing the budget? Since when did it take more money to balance the budget? Key Word EJ: Balance.

5. Gov't needs more revenue. Really? To dump down the rat hole that is Solyndra? To waste it on research on the sexual practices of autistic snails in Brazil? Or do they need more revenue to pay down the debt because we know how big a joke that is.

There's so much more to this article that even a lowly blogger like me doesn't even want to waste my time refuting it. Mr. Dionne is a frequent guest on Rachel Maddow's show which I also torture myself listening to it. Recently he's been overly appreciative of her having him as a guest on the show. Perhaps that's the only show who will have him. Sad.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

A wicked smart guy, columnist and historian, Victor Davis Hanson's latest piece talks about the cultural differences in Europe but it has amazing similarities in China. He writes:

But government-driven efforts to change national behavior often ignore stubborn cultural differences that reflect centuries of complex history as well as ancient habits and adaptations to geography and climate. Greeks can no more easily give up siestas than the Swiss can mandate two-hour afternoon naps. If tax cheating is a national pastime in Palermo, by comparison it is difficult along the Rhine.

This is so true as what's been happening in China for the last 60 or so years. Government driven efforts to overcome the culture and in each attempt they failed. The Chinese will always yearn to breath free and make money no matter what the government and what the political situation.

Mr. Hanson continues:

...over the years I have developed an unscientific and haphazard -- but often accurate -- politically incorrect method of guessing whether a nation is likely to be perennially insolvent and wracked by corruption.

Do average passersby throw down or pick up litter? After a minor fender-bender, do drivers politely exchange information, or do they scream and yell with wild gesticulations? Is honking constant or sporadic? Are crosswalks sacrosanct? Do restaurant dinners usually start or wind down at 9 P.M.? Can you drink tap water, or should you avoid it? Do you mostly pay what the price tag says, or are you expected to pay in untaxed cash and then haggle over the unstated cost? Are construction sites clearly marked and fenced to protect pedestrians, or do you risk walking into an open pit or getting stabbed by exposed rebar?

The only thing in that list that wouldn't fit with China is the restaurant closing at 9pm. The rest of that is ALL the spitting image of China. Amazing. Perhaps he's correct as China is wracked with corruption and soon to be insolvent!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

I had been thinking this before. How we're told by many Democrats that oil is bad, fossil fuels are bad for us. Then suddenly we're told that Obama has been drilling more than anybody ever or something. Wait, which is it? Are we drilling or do we think oil is bad? It gets to the point where you have to look the Obama Supporter in the eyes and ask them: "Do you believe what he just said?"

I recall that once upon a time Obama derided fossil fuels, bragging that "millions of new green jobs" would accrue from subsidizing wind and solar power and "bankrupting" coal companies, as energy prices would accordingly "skyrocket." But then once upon another time, Obama bragged that on his watch we are pumping more oil than ever before, apparently because private firms ignored his pleas and drilled despite his efforts to shut down leasing on public lands. So we are to credit Obama for stopping oil leasing on public lands, which forced greater production on private lands, while being impressed that he lost billions subsidizing doomed solar and wind companies? When the government fails to promote new energy, that constitutes success because those outside the government then must do more? Do the various Obamas represent both the good but failed intention and the bad successful one?

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Comparing "Fortunate Son" a book about Bush published in 2000 before the election and Klein's new book "The Amateur" about Obama.

Byron York writes:

Unlike the media storm over "Fortunate Son," the Wright revelation has attracted very little comment in the press. The Associated Press and most of those outlets that talked about Bush and cocaine? They've had little or nothing to say about Jeremiah Wright and alleged payoffs.

12. Put in your e-mail address or that annoying liberal who you want to convince to not vote for Obama. (Just kidding.) Then in the subject line I recommend you add the name THOMAS SOWELL because that way you know what the e-mail is when it comes in your inbox. {{EntryTitle}} = means the Title of Mr. Sowell's article will appear in the subject line.

13. In the body you should paste this: {{EntryImageUrl}} {{EntryContent}}

from {{FeedTitle}} {{EntryUrl}} {{EntryPublished}} Basically this all means that you are posting any image from the article (he has very few) and the Content or article, the feed title and the URL so that you can click on it and see the article and the date it was published.

14. I honestly don't know what the last part about an attachment is.

15. Click CREATE TRIGGER. and name it whatever you want.

16. Click CREATE TASK

17. And you are done. Be patient. He writes these once a week. The best part about this is that you can immediately forward it to your friends and it's all internally on your e-mail so it's much more convenient.